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This program doesn't warrant that amount of effort.
I'll have to ensure that my command line parser can remove the namespace when present, but this program doesn't use that anyway.
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Nice idea - shame it's so limited. Once you get to the rock - "I need a tool to get past this" - that seems to be the end, since there isn't a tool anywhere.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: since there isn't a tool anywhere.
You can get the pick. I found it. I can give you the first hint and then more if you need them.
I' thinking you got stuck on the part I got stuck on....
The elevators do go down but you click below the down arrow.
This is your HINT : You have to go down the elevator to find the pick and bring it back up.
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raddevus wrote: The elevators do go down but you click below the down arrow.
Sounds like a bug to me.
I've now been through every bit it will let me get to, and clicked on everything it will let me click, and there doesn't seem to be any way to progress. Time to give up and get some sleep.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Aaaargh! Finally worked out what the notes meant.
It didn't help that the spinners for the combination didn't seem to be working in FF62.
Shenanigans indeed.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Glad you got it.
It is a fairly nice extended example of what can be done with CSS3.
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Richard Deeming wrote: shame it's so limited. If only there were a way to make changes to it.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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If I had a few weeks to study Jamie's code, I might be able to work out how to do that.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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switch (str)
{
case "4":
if (str != "5") ...
Ah, the joys of outsourcing with no code reviews.
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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The naming of str bugs me just as much. Ok, I know it's a string. But what is it? Calling it something like invoiceTypeCode indicates it is a string and lets me know what I am looking at.
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gardnerp wrote: The naming of str bugs me just as much.
It had a real name. I sanitized it.
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I was guessing that the programmer had a Fortran background. Fortran has no reserved words (at least it didn't up to F77 - I haven't used more recent versions) so you could define INTEGER to be a REAL variable and COMPLEX to be an INTEGER variable, The result of multiplying INTEGER and COMPLEX could be REAL value stored in the REAL variable REAL. Spaces had no significance, so REALREAL and COMPLEXFUNCTION were perfectly valid variable declarations. (I am really happy that I never had to write a Fortran parser!)
When learning Fortran coding at the university, we made up lots of programming exercises for our own fun. One of them was to print out Pascal's triangle using predefined words only, and no literals. Our compiler allowed recursion, which was an extension to Fortran IV, but without it, I doubt that we would have succeeded. The code was completely unreadable. Maybe I should dig it up from the basement and post it here!
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I recently inherited a load of "code" (it's VBA so I don't want to it ideas above its station ) ... during the "handover" (apparently that's what it was) the original "programmer" explained with great pride, that they didn't Quote: waste their time using long variable names... Yep! Every single one of them was a single character. Every. Single. One.
(Except where he copied code snippets off the internet)
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CHill60 wrote: waste their time using long variable names It's likely they spent more time trying to remember and figure out what each single character variable actually was.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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The only thing we know for surte is that it isn't 5.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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You should have a mutex to make sure str does not change at that moment!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Good grief. I keep telling my techie wife that soon you'll see critical systems failing left and right that used to work pretty well. Shoot, maybe that's why AI is all the rage today. Were scared of, let's just call em the up and comers.
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Maybe they need to check that left!=right ?
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Yeah, you never know when 4 might turn out to be 5!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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It could be a Trekkie trying to be cute.
"There are four lights!"
"Are you sure?"
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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It's 3 weeks I am a consultant and I'm seeing sh*t like this way too often. And I am expected to produce the same, since I have to be productive with a 2 weeks training over a medium sized project with no documentation nor coding standard (functions that take 12 arguments named ct, ly, ex, ey, tx, fx and so on...).
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: since I have to be productive with a 2 weeks training over a medium sized project with no documentation nor coding standard
Ouch! I feel your pain!
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Oh my. This is what happens when people can get titles like "senior" based on time and not on skill. I need a drink after reading that
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